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Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

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whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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